UNBC Geography
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Sign up for one of our many courses next semester! For a full listing of our Winter 2021 courses, click on this link: https://www.unbc.ca/geography//winter-2021-course-schedule

Reminder of today's Global Friday presentation by poet & speaker Junie Désil, so-sponsored by Inspiring Women Among Us (IWAU). Join online today at 12pm: Blackboard Collaborate http://bit.ly/unbc-global-fridays

Glaciers in B.C.’s Columbia River basin are 38 per cent thicker in mass than originally thought, according to research led by UNBC scientists. Despite the incre...ased thickness, they still predict, based on current observed rates of glacier mass loss that glaciers would disappear from the basin in about 65 80 years. The first-of-its-kind research in the Columbia Mountains was published this fall in the Journal of Glaciology. Disappearance of these glaciers will negatively affect the basin’s surface hydrology, freshwater availability and aquatic ecosystems, potentially affecting fish stocks and habitat," explains Ben Pelto who is the lead author of the paper. The researchers calculated the glaciers’ true size by using ice-penetrating radar, towed by skis, to measure ice thickness over five glaciers in B.C.’s Columbia Mountains from 2015-2018. Read more: https://www.unbc.ca//unbc-study-reveals-columbia-basin-gla Photo credits: Ben Pelto, Jill Pelto. #UNBCResearch #ThisIsUNBC UNBC Geography See more

Join us next semester in our many courses! Dr. Greg Halseth will facilitate this course which examines Canada’s peoples and diverse environments, emphasizing dynamic identities and relationships. #UNBC #geography For a full listing of our Winter 2021 courses, see: https://www.unbc.ca/geogra/news/winter-2021-course-schedule

WATCH: In case you missed our event yesterday, grad a coffee or tea and tune in to our recording of Why We Love Geography session. Listen in & get inspired by our passions for geographical research & teaching geography! UNBC GEOG https://youtu.be/l0kDnNyhnGM via YouTube #GeographyAwarenessWeek #GeoWeek

It's #GeographyAwarenessWeek2020 #GEOWeek Royal Canadian Geographical Society welcomes new Fellows each year to the College of Fellows. Tune into the RCGS Fellows Show at 4:30pm PST, hear from eco explorer Mario Rigby as he introduces the newest members - including UNBC Geography's Dr. Catherine Nolin! WATCH on Canadian Geographic's YouTube page:... https://youtube.com/watch?v=JgwR1p See more

"Divestment from fossil fuels" Drs. Vanessa Sloan Morgan & Neil Hanlon (UNBC Geography) and Jessica Dempsey (UBC Department of Geography) wrote this piece for the most recent issue of the CAUT Bulletin about the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) decision to divest from fossil fuels. Neil Hanlon is the President of the CAG.... "In what do our scholarly organizations invest?" https://caut.ca/bulletin/2020/11/caut-bulletin-november-2020

Tune in to see Dr. Catherine Nolin inducted as a Fellow into the RCGS at 4:30pm PST.